When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man must be a murderer. Even though he was saved from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed him to live.”
you must not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, YHWH your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,